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what's so fascinating about the reception to this on the right is that romney substancetively moved to the left, no question, and it's also the moment that he's been most embraced by the right. >> exactly. >> the reason is this, the thing conservatives care the most about is pissing off liberals. the thing that makes them happiest is when liberals are angry at you. if you infuriate liberals by moving to the left and confounding their beloved president, they're going to love you. they don't care. >> one more thing, they don't really worry that he would actually do what he says. >> that's the other thing. that is the big question. >> they know that once he gets elected he'll move back to the right but not as far right as he was during the primaries. >> at least they think so. >> they think so. >> the larger question, is anyone going to change their opinion based on this quote, unquote, lackluster performance by the president. if you supported him, you might be disappointed, calling joy wondering what happened but you're still going to vote for the president. >> it's the undecided. >> who
what's so fascinating about the reception to this on the right is that romney substancetively moved to the left, no question, and it's also the moment that he's been most embraced by the right. >> exactly. >> the reason is this, the thing conservatives care the most about is pissing off liberals. the thing that makes them happiest is when liberals are angry at you. if you infuriate liberals by moving to the left and confounding their beloved president, they're going to love you....
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the right is going along because its partisans know romney has no other option. this, too, is an acknowledgment of defeat, a recognition that the grand ideological experiment heralded by the rise of the tea party has no legs. brendan dougherty is with us. it is always great to have you here. i want to play this. i think this is fascinating because i think the tea party dominated all discussions of american politics for a while and then just seemed to kind of disappear from the discussion. and part of that has to do with the fact that they took over the house so the tea period became the house caucus. it was channelled into that. part of that has to do with the fact that what once was a good part, it has become a terrible brand. you see this reflected in democratic candidates stopping at nothing to invote the tea party against the candidates. take a look at their candidate. >> do you think richard mourdock will work with both parties to get things done? hardly. voters are deciding between linda mcmahon and myself. they're deciding whether the tea party should be p
the right is going along because its partisans know romney has no other option. this, too, is an acknowledgment of defeat, a recognition that the grand ideological experiment heralded by the rise of the tea party has no legs. brendan dougherty is with us. it is always great to have you here. i want to play this. i think this is fascinating because i think the tea party dominated all discussions of american politics for a while and then just seemed to kind of disappear from the discussion. and...
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of which have become common place to the point of cliche in right wing circles and ones in which romney offered inside the safety and conservative bubble and it was leaked out. in the song, 10 crack commandments biggie smalls offered a set of rules for drug dealers who want to avoid perils. >> never get high on your own supply. >> same with political strategists. don't start believing that everyone out there in the voting booth is seeing the world the way you do. the gop has i think lost sight of this simple wisdom. they are now smoking what they're dealing. it's a big part of why those poll numbers look the way they do and a good reminder of the dysfunction and incompetence that happen when people in charge only listen to themselves. i'm going to talk to my panel about the consequences of living inside the conservative bubble when we get back. maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows... ...nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can i
of which have become common place to the point of cliche in right wing circles and ones in which romney offered inside the safety and conservative bubble and it was leaked out. in the song, 10 crack commandments biggie smalls offered a set of rules for drug dealers who want to avoid perils. >> never get high on your own supply. >> same with political strategists. don't start believing that everyone out there in the voting booth is seeing the world the way you do. the gop has i think...
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this is about making right mitt romney more. not making tontry actually i thijs the 32 try dressed. >> for ripe and lomny so. slay afly ray clel. this is a pick of the peer pick. both in the case of the obama clinton primaries and now again with romney runs, when someone's been in the public eye for a very long time, there's no room for a campaign. that 54% is a campaign. >> we're going to listen live as governor mcdonnell finish out his speech as mitt romney announces his vice president ticket mate. >> that is which candidates got the investigation and the ideas to gitd the greatest condition i on earth, out of debtbling back to to work. on the 1-800-hand we've got tt obama vision and, mr. president, with all due respect, that's failed mek now for the las 3 17b8d 2 years. but then we've tt gop, the great opportunity party in its vision and its candidate. >> we've got that incredible reagan romney enthusiastic ambition that recognizes the american dream that if you work hard and pursue opportunity and give your god-given talents
this is about making right mitt romney more. not making tontry actually i thijs the 32 try dressed. >> for ripe and lomny so. slay afly ray clel. this is a pick of the peer pick. both in the case of the obama clinton primaries and now again with romney runs, when someone's been in the public eye for a very long time, there's no room for a campaign. that 54% is a campaign. >> we're going to listen live as governor mcdonnell finish out his speech as mitt romney announces his vice...
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it's an easy kind of reporting i go. >> mitt romney's father. >> right. there are literally hundreds of examples of gaps. almost none of them except for gerald ford saying in october of 1976 that poland would you describe not under soviet domination so close to the election, he probably lost to karlter because of those gaps. none have been desooifive. this one was a classic one. clinton didn't really say anything wrong. it's e he's a little built rusty. you ctell from the end of the sound bite that fox cut that he wasn't endorsing the decision. >> to me, he also perfectly embodies the contradictions of the modern democratic coalition. i want to talk about that after this break. ♪ surf's up everybody get your boards and your wetsuits ♪ free-credit-score-dot-com's gonna direct you ♪ ♪ to check your credit score before it gets too late ♪ ♪ and you end up strapped for cash ♪ ♪ patching your board with duct tape ♪ ♪ so hit free-credit-score-dot-com ♪ ♪ find out what credit's about ♪ ♪ or else you could be headed for a credit wipeout
it's an easy kind of reporting i go. >> mitt romney's father. >> right. there are literally hundreds of examples of gaps. almost none of them except for gerald ford saying in october of 1976 that poland would you describe not under soviet domination so close to the election, he probably lost to karlter because of those gaps. none have been desooifive. this one was a classic one. clinton didn't really say anything wrong. it's e he's a little built rusty. you ctell from the end of the...
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. >> right. >> mitt romney did, let's remember, i think just last month, talking to our friend laura ingram, was confronted by the fact that it was already getting better, again, not good enough. >> it gets better. >> he's like, no, no, it doesn't. >> not on my watch. >> he conceded that it did. >> it's going to be a perfect sound bite for the campaign for november because it was like, yes, of course the economy is getting better. he's like, well, do you have any better ideas for me, laura? he said that. he was stuck. >> poor baby. >> romney is the one to watch, i think. he's essentially built a single issue candidacy. >> absolutely. >> it's sort of like a table that only has one leg and the leg is -- >> yep. >> there is something i can do for this economy that barack obama either doesn't know how to do or refuses to do. and you know, just as a political reporter chronicling this race, once the obama people or the jobs numbers undercut that leg, i just don see where that candidacy goes. >> i think that's a great point. i actually have in some ways, i think, counterintuitively, i thou
. >> right. >> mitt romney did, let's remember, i think just last month, talking to our friend laura ingram, was confronted by the fact that it was already getting better, again, not good enough. >> it gets better. >> he's like, no, no, it doesn't. >> not on my watch. >> he conceded that it did. >> it's going to be a perfect sound bite for the campaign for november because it was like, yes, of course the economy is getting better. he's like, well, do...
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. >> right. >> mitt romney, his ideal, six years from now, what does the economy look like? >> it's a great question for you, tom. i know you are close to mr. romney. >> i think -- >> sorry. hold that thought. we have to take a break. i want you to answer when we come back. many of my patients still clean their dentures with toothpaste. but they have to use special care in keeping the denture clean. dentures are very different to real teeth. they're about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. polident is designed to clean dentures daily. its unique micro-clean formula kills 99.9% of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains, cleaning in a better way than brushing with toothpaste. that's why i recommend using polident. [ male announcer ] polident. cleaner, fresher and brighter every day. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pai
. >> right. >> mitt romney, his ideal, six years from now, what does the economy look like? >> it's a great question for you, tom. i know you are close to mr. romney. >> i think -- >> sorry. hold that thought. we have to take a break. i want you to answer when we come back. many of my patients still clean their dentures with toothpaste. but they have to use special care in keeping the denture clean. dentures are very different to real teeth. they're about 10 times...
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and abortion rights, mitt romney, they may not be his priority, but i don't see him stopping. i think he will surround himself with the people to set the agenda much like in the bush administration. >> i think -- >> please. >> on the other side it's a cautionary tale against democratic fluff, we're in the face of, oh, man, we've got mitt romney, great, our guy is great. he'll do well. the cautionary tale is that mitt romney appears to be more reasonable than he is. he appears to be more willing to be conciliatory than he is, because as our distinguished colleagues have indicated, the willingness to govern and the mandate to operate within a narrowly prescribed framework of republican ideology will make sure he doesn't do the bipartisan stuff, he's learned from obama that it doesn't work. >> the people around the obama campaign are really worried about. they are worried about precisely this bizarre, ironic twist in which his insin sierrety becomes a kind of plus for him in the general election because people generally think he was pandering, he doesn't mean it. he doesn't mean
and abortion rights, mitt romney, they may not be his priority, but i don't see him stopping. i think he will surround himself with the people to set the agenda much like in the bush administration. >> i think -- >> please. >> on the other side it's a cautionary tale against democratic fluff, we're in the face of, oh, man, we've got mitt romney, great, our guy is great. he'll do well. the cautionary tale is that mitt romney appears to be more reasonable than he is. he appears...
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i really feel that strongly. >> there's not a space right now, i guess, perceuptually for mitt romney to actually make the argument he might make which is the argument that clint eastwood makes. >> he could make that argument but he's not. >> we're going to go around the table and get how many wars mitt romney will start right after this break. >>> since mitt romney mentioned dictators in that speech, i think we should just mention the years of the obama presidency, and i don't think this is necessarily due to president obama, and in some cases clearly not due to him, but it hasn't been a good run of dictators. we should note in the obama administration, we have the various presidents, they've also given way to democratic election. so i think the point there is that going around the world starting fwad wars strengthens dictators and actualforeign for policies are laboring under tyranny and not village to work about the demagoguery of the dig ta -- dictators of the american enemy. >>> bad wars are not good for any leaders. witness lbj and vietnam, witness george w. bush and iraq. you k
i really feel that strongly. >> there's not a space right now, i guess, perceuptually for mitt romney to actually make the argument he might make which is the argument that clint eastwood makes. >> he could make that argument but he's not. >> we're going to go around the table and get how many wars mitt romney will start right after this break. >>> since mitt romney mentioned dictators in that speech, i think we should just mention the years of the obama presidency,...
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then you have mitt romney who represents winning. >> right. >> it's going to be really, really interesting, actually, to see how that debate works out within the republican party and i think in the country overall. >> debate tonight and debate -- republican debate right here tomorrow actually on our network. so, we'll be following that. we'll be talking about some of it tomorrow. >> this is only new for me, not necessarily new for the world, but i read a wonderful book by a guy called robert whitaker called "anatomy of an epidemic" and early on he notes 1 in 76 americans is disabled by mental illness. that number 20 years ago was half as big. in the 1950s it was one-sixth as big. for whatever reason, we've grown more affluent, yet compared to countries much, much poorer, much more inequality, but have this extraordinary number of increase in people who can't work, socially isolated because of mental illness and the controversial thesis is that it is due to our heavy reliance on psychopharmaceuticals. it is an incredibly beautifully written book. very compelling and speaks to a deep problem
then you have mitt romney who represents winning. >> right. >> it's going to be really, really interesting, actually, to see how that debate works out within the republican party and i think in the country overall. >> debate tonight and debate -- republican debate right here tomorrow actually on our network. so, we'll be following that. we'll be talking about some of it tomorrow. >> this is only new for me, not necessarily new for the world, but i read a wonderful book...
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in his debate that ryan couldn't quite do because romney could -- romney had pandered to the right of the party. he had done it largely rhetorically even though he had not been a really hard right governor of massachusetts because he was constrained by democratic legislature and so he could just forget everything he said on the stump for a while, but paul ryan, his whole career has been being a creature of the world of conservative wing think tanks. he had this record. he crafted a social security privatization plan that was to the right of the plan proposed by george w bush and he couldn't just run away from it and say, no, no, i don't believe in that anymore. he ended up having to sort of defend these things. i think that got him into a lot more trouble than romney got into. >> yeah. i mean, i think that's right. the idea that, you know, sort of privatization or private accounts is an incredibly radical thing, you can argue against this. sweden where i lived for many years has private accounts. it doesn't have to be. it doesn't have to be this boondoggle that benefits private equity
in his debate that ryan couldn't quite do because romney could -- romney had pandered to the right of the party. he had done it largely rhetorically even though he had not been a really hard right governor of massachusetts because he was constrained by democratic legislature and so he could just forget everything he said on the stump for a while, but paul ryan, his whole career has been being a creature of the world of conservative wing think tanks. he had this record. he crafted a social...
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mitt romney doesn't want to do that. >> when you say we haven't done that, right, president barack obama has been the president for the last few years. this is what it beings llooks l me. tough on china, tough on china. gets in, passes nafta. george bush, tough on china. gets in is not tough on china. this seems to me like a troep. is there any actual distance between mitt romney and barack obama on the issue. >> let's go back to what the actual record is. the last 3 1/2 years thea would be the first to note that there was increased opportunity output in this country by 12%. first increase since about 1996. the president has a real tangible plan to increase manufacturing jobs by another million between now and 2016 and to double our manufacturing exports in this country between now and 2014. if you just -- i want to go back to the conversation we had before about free trade versus fair trade, what the impact is on workers. the ford model. i suggest the dislocation we have now is because of a shift in values. the revolution and the ford model that if you paid your workers a living wage th
mitt romney doesn't want to do that. >> when you say we haven't done that, right, president barack obama has been the president for the last few years. this is what it beings llooks l me. tough on china, tough on china. gets in, passes nafta. george bush, tough on china. gets in is not tough on china. this seems to me like a troep. is there any actual distance between mitt romney and barack obama on the issue. >> let's go back to what the actual record is. the last 3 1/2 years thea...
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romney repeatedly moved to the right on issues. his most extreme position and the one that helped him win the nomination the most was the rightward move on immigration. romney claimed rick perry was creating -- he favored making things so hard for undocumented workers they would self-deport. romney signaled to the republican base he shared their views on immigration in the language he used to talk about it. >> almost half the jobs created in texas were created for illegal aliens. instate tuition for illegal citizens. giving tuition breaks for the kids of illegal aliens. four years of college. you can't have any illegals working on our property. i'm running for office. >> the word illegal continues to be used because the word modifies the person, not their status. it's why journalists wts "the new york times" and other news outlets to stop using the term illegal immigrant. here he is making the plea last month. >> it's time we retire the word and the term illegal immigrant referring to people. it's not only an inhumane term, it is a
romney repeatedly moved to the right on issues. his most extreme position and the one that helped him win the nomination the most was the rightward move on immigration. romney claimed rick perry was creating -- he favored making things so hard for undocumented workers they would self-deport. romney signaled to the republican base he shared their views on immigration in the language he used to talk about it. >> almost half the jobs created in texas were created for illegal aliens. instate...
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. >> that is the ryan budget, right? it's simply, we're essentially going to just make these programs smaller. we won't solve any problems we'll throw more people off of these programs. that's it. there's no solution there. >> it also comes back to the voter i.d. laws. when you are working two jobs and you're working 18, 20 hours and you're still not able to pay for food at the end of the month and then you're told in the state of pennsylvania to drive 45 miles and you may not even have a car or be able to afford to pay for gas in the tank and take a day off from work because you may not earn wages when you take that day off. >> here's the thing -- >> tanya, please. >> here's one of the things, if you want to bring america back you have to focus on the middle class. the middle class is struggling. we're now the poor class. you have to get us back up to that level so we can start hemg out to get this country back on track. one of the things you have to do is invest in the people. the people are like people like me. the pe
. >> that is the ryan budget, right? it's simply, we're essentially going to just make these programs smaller. we won't solve any problems we'll throw more people off of these programs. that's it. there's no solution there. >> it also comes back to the voter i.d. laws. when you are working two jobs and you're working 18, 20 hours and you're still not able to pay for food at the end of the month and then you're told in the state of pennsylvania to drive 45 miles and you may not even...
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they know what they believe. >> i have a problem for mitt romney. authenticity point is right. the other problem is i think he is authentically very religious and, you know, you see his -- facts of his biography to show him to be a very committed person of faith for who his faith has been central to his life and in -- in ways that are really admirable. and doing community service and -- all that stuff. but he can't talk about that because -- or he has chosen to. maybe -- maybe people would like romney more if he told us about his mormonism and commitment to it. but he decided that that is a no go zone. >> right. get back to what jeff's point is, best argument for mitt romney is i'm a highly competent technocratic manager. nonlt is there a problem with that in terms of political -- it is a bloodless vision. it is not who -- it is a tote lynn inspiring -- >> i think that message could have worked in the general election. but the point is he's had the tact so far to get through this primary and i think much more so than he thought. last august, i think he had that -- that ad about
they know what they believe. >> i have a problem for mitt romney. authenticity point is right. the other problem is i think he is authentically very religious and, you know, you see his -- facts of his biography to show him to be a very committed person of faith for who his faith has been central to his life and in -- in ways that are really admirable. and doing community service and -- all that stuff. but he can't talk about that because -- or he has chosen to. maybe -- maybe people...
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he not only has shoved newt gingrich to the right and om romney adopted a position right to netanyahu. at the debate in december, romney attacked him. in the last debate, gingrich doubled down on that and said -- romney didn't say anything. in fact, said obama threw israel under the bus. >> plus, incredibly provocative, dangerous notion you move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. that is gingrich's platform and now that is -- that is given balan ballast. >> it actually hasn't. that is the interesting thing. in fact, the only moment of core between romney and gingrich on the last debate was on israel. gingrich turned to romney saying i agree with you completely. >> the real issue is what allowed this to happen. what allowed this extreme amount of money to go into politics when we have been working with some form of campaign finance my entire life and it's the citizens united supreme court decision which allowed billionaires and corporations to use their resources, their money, to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens and it is very undemocratic and i would say, frankly, danger
he not only has shoved newt gingrich to the right and om romney adopted a position right to netanyahu. at the debate in december, romney attacked him. in the last debate, gingrich doubled down on that and said -- romney didn't say anything. in fact, said obama threw israel under the bus. >> plus, incredibly provocative, dangerous notion you move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. that is gingrich's platform and now that is -- that is given balan ballast. >> it actually hasn't....
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when and if romney is a nominee, we will be there with a checkbook. >> that's right. in fact, newt gingrich was asked about that last night. there was romney with his supporters and there was gingrich with a reporters. interesting. >> did he think that maybe the supporters wouldn't be there, just had the news conference? i was wondering, you know, they put out information about the super pacs and who contributed to them. did we see president obama contributing to gingrich's super pac? that's the purpose. right now it is surfacing. >> i was thinking before that i zintd why sma-- it seems like that's something people support obama can do. >> i dash my big question is -- i think we are in a really interesting moment in politics in terms of the relationship. this is all -- this is all soil currently being plowed. we don't know what will grow up in the wake of it. my big question is just what level of cynicism and what level of big money will the american people tolerate? i'm totally honest. if it turns out someone writes $100 million check. there will be people that can w
when and if romney is a nominee, we will be there with a checkbook. >> that's right. in fact, newt gingrich was asked about that last night. there was romney with his supporters and there was gingrich with a reporters. interesting. >> did he think that maybe the supporters wouldn't be there, just had the news conference? i was wondering, you know, they put out information about the super pacs and who contributed to them. did we see president obama contributing to gingrich's super...
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if you look at the nominees, john mccain and mitt romney, that the right wing base of the party didn't get its wish with either john mccain and mitt romney and i'm curious to get your feedback. this is not mitt romney's platform, this is the republican party. >> i'd say a couple things. excuse me. in both parties the activists are always going to be driving the agenda and the platforms are the ones pushing the candidates to adhere to certain principals. how the republican party activist base has evolved. in the 1990s more of this social conservativi conservatism activists. it's very much about the debt and that's the driver of the republican party in a way that 15, 20 years wasn't true. >> people say that and i don't buy it. this was the story we were told about the tea party, oh, gone are the days of evangelicals on the cover of "time" magazine, george w. bush. do you guys feel that is the case, they made this turn away from social issues. >> the house republicans come in and one thing they try to do is defund planned parenthood. the thing about todd aiken is the tragedy for todd akin
if you look at the nominees, john mccain and mitt romney, that the right wing base of the party didn't get its wish with either john mccain and mitt romney and i'm curious to get your feedback. this is not mitt romney's platform, this is the republican party. >> i'd say a couple things. excuse me. in both parties the activists are always going to be driving the agenda and the platforms are the ones pushing the candidates to adhere to certain principals. how the republican party activist...
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>> the other group of obama voter that is romney is aiming at right after this. i went to a small high school. the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. i mean he could teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us. but last year my daughter was checking up on me. i wasn't eating well. she's a dietitian, and she suggests that i try boost complete nutritional drink to help get the nutrition i was missing. now i drink it every day and i love the great taste. [ female announcer ] boost has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to help keep bones strong and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. and our great taste is guaranteed or youmoney back. learn more at boost.com. [ dad ] i choose great taste. i choose boost. how long since you worried about flakes? since before jeans were this skinny. not since us three got a haircut. not si
>> the other group of obama voter that is romney is aiming at right after this. i went to a small high school. the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. i mean he could teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us. but last year my daughter was checking up on me. i wasn't eating well....
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mitt romney made similar cases. it is something -- the revenue on the right. somehow the election of barack obama, the man, black man with the foreign sounding man, has taken america off the path of americ americanand making it into what it is at the core. >> i just want to judgment in on both the name check which happened twice in the speech as well as american exceptionalism point. one if this is about anger at the elite, solinski may be a model. if we are talking about -- there is a by that which we have to ask exactly this question. even if it doesn't bring the name immediately, what is using that name men to do when olinski would be a lovely model angry at the elites and looking at below the poverty line in south carolina. this is the point about american exceptionalism. it is a code word for this kind of aggressive international action when it could be a very different way of thinking about exceptionalism. when president obama was senator obama making his pitch, he says only in america my story. even possible. he's in many ways perhaps the embodiment of
mitt romney made similar cases. it is something -- the revenue on the right. somehow the election of barack obama, the man, black man with the foreign sounding man, has taken america off the path of americ americanand making it into what it is at the core. >> i just want to judgment in on both the name check which happened twice in the speech as well as american exceptionalism point. one if this is about anger at the elite, solinski may be a model. if we are talking about -- there is a by...
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let's remember, rick perry, right, was going to be the great hope, right? he showed up and basically mitt romney pulled out this machete called "the dream act" which had been passed in texas and he just stuck it in rick perry's gut over and over and totally dispatched him from the race using this issue by demagoguing on this issue saying you are giving to illegal, illegals, illegals. let's just remember the context here. >> now he says marco rubio says this, i'll hide behind marco rubio. >> one point for me was the political capital that the president is absolutely going to gain with latinos in florida, which is a huge swing state for the general election. when, in his state of the union address, he literally spoke about he's going to up the deportations and we saw record numbers in 2011. he was now playing politics with the republican party about, if i do this for you, maybe we can get something from you, what he had done was abandon the mandate of the people who put them in the office in the first place. his movement he has switched back to the direction
let's remember, rick perry, right, was going to be the great hope, right? he showed up and basically mitt romney pulled out this machete called "the dream act" which had been passed in texas and he just stuck it in rick perry's gut over and over and totally dispatched him from the race using this issue by demagoguing on this issue saying you are giving to illegal, illegals, illegals. let's just remember the context here. >> now he says marco rubio says this, i'll hide behind...
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and we have this strange inversion right now which is that when mitt romney gets asked cultural war questions in colorado about medical marijuana, gay marriage, illegal immigrati immigration, which back in the day would have been red meat. they wanted to get asked that so he can knock it out of the park, he gets angry and says let's talk about economic issues. and here carl rove accusing barack obama of politicizing gay marriage. >> remember, how political is this? he changed his mind but he was waiting until it was close to the convention in order to bring the maximum amount of benefit out of it. 30 states have defended traditional marriage. north carolina, critical value of one state voted the day before he made this announcem t announcement. 61-39 in nay fer. >> so you think it's a net negative? >> net negative, yes. >> david, i wanted to ask you, have we experienced a strange, social economic issue inversion right after we take a quick break. ts blossom. that's why programs like... ...the mickelson exxonmobil teachers academy... ...and astronaut sally ride's science academy are helping ou
and we have this strange inversion right now which is that when mitt romney gets asked cultural war questions in colorado about medical marijuana, gay marriage, illegal immigrati immigration, which back in the day would have been red meat. they wanted to get asked that so he can knock it out of the park, he gets angry and says let's talk about economic issues. and here carl rove accusing barack obama of politicizing gay marriage. >> remember, how political is this? he changed his mind but...
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under mitt romney's own tax policies, right, he would pay about 2% effective rate. >> and enter paul ryan would pay nothing. >> zero. >> we would pay a truck to his house. >> they have this notarized note about the 20-year average. this is too cute by half, from 1990 to 1997 which is now included in the 20 year average, the capital gains was 30% which is twice now. it went down to 20 something and then finally the full bush tax cuts kicked in. part of the reason they're doing the 20e year average is so they can bake in the cake from 1990 to 1997 when they had to pay a 30% rate. let me finish this point. i'm talking too much. the point here, this gets us to the 47% thing to me. there is a synthesis here between a policy vision about taxes and redistribution and what american people should do and who makes the american economy run and i think there's genuine contempt that's shown to not be funny for a secretary. i don't know if it's genuine or not or he's pandering to the contempt of the people in the room, but these people, i can't convince them to take responsibility for their lives.
under mitt romney's own tax policies, right, he would pay about 2% effective rate. >> and enter paul ryan would pay nothing. >> zero. >> we would pay a truck to his house. >> they have this notarized note about the 20-year average. this is too cute by half, from 1990 to 1997 which is now included in the 20 year average, the capital gains was 30% which is twice now. it went down to 20 something and then finally the full bush tax cuts kicked in. part of the reason they're...
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believe he's running hard to the right, but i think it is a stronger sign that mitt romney intends to pursue a centrist path in the presidency. if romney is going to try to get policies through a republican-controlled house that they are not predisposed to do, with could who would you want to sell to republicans in congress? the answer is paul ryan. we saw his edition for arguing against the more expanded and more expensive medicare program. i think we'll see a lot like that from paul ryan over the next four years if the romney/ryan ticket wins. >> i don't believe that's true, but i do believe if you are sworn in as mitt romney on january 21st or whatever it is in 2013, you look at the economy and will be like, man, we need some stimulus. paul ryan, bro, do you mind going up to the house and selling them on stimulus? that i do believe we'll see. it will be all tax cuts. michelle glober. >> i think we have known for a while, but it is especially significant with ryan on the ticket, we are talking about the money, the medicare debate, the medicaid debate is a lot more significant. the r
believe he's running hard to the right, but i think it is a stronger sign that mitt romney intends to pursue a centrist path in the presidency. if romney is going to try to get policies through a republican-controlled house that they are not predisposed to do, with could who would you want to sell to republicans in congress? the answer is paul ryan. we saw his edition for arguing against the more expanded and more expensive medicare program. i think we'll see a lot like that from paul ryan over...
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it seems to me newt gingrich is a right person at the right time to just sit there and collect all of the anti-romney sentiment from whatever, you know, whatever the motivation of the base is. >> well, you mean p. polling after the south carolina primary and it showed, i think, if you -- religious belief was important to you favor newt over romney. so i think within south carolina, certainly religion was sadly still very much an issue. and i just -- i think right now he's just the repository of all of this anger. and that's what's upsetting because he doesn't represent an ideas-driven movement. he represents anger which is really scary in a very negative spiral. i think for the republican party, to purchase zblu there is a power to the anger because that's what created the tea party. that's what newt incorporates. so that -- there was an entire segment of the population that fields a connection, complete understanding, and through listening to newt. through hearing what he is saying and that's the point i want to make. stick it to him, newt. there is a real specific channelling of the
it seems to me newt gingrich is a right person at the right time to just sit there and collect all of the anti-romney sentiment from whatever, you know, whatever the motivation of the base is. >> well, you mean p. polling after the south carolina primary and it showed, i think, if you -- religious belief was important to you favor newt over romney. so i think within south carolina, certainly religion was sadly still very much an issue. and i just -- i think right now he's just the...
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♪ >>> all right. joining me, i have a member of mitt romney's health care adviser group. i have the author of "america's unwritten constitution." heather mcgee and henrik from the new yorker magazine. there are -- i want to show some polling about the electoral college. i want to put this flag in the ground before election day happens. i would like to remind everyone on the right what their commitments are. if you ask people, should we have a popular vote, you will see that democrats have a strong preference for that. 71% of democrats express it, 53% of republicans. republicans, support for it has been gaining. 41% in 2000. generally, the way this breaks down, if you look at the states that passed natural popular vote, democrats and people on the left like the idea of the natural popular vote and people on the right like the idea of the electoral college. know that. know where everyone is coming from should we get a mitt romney electoral college defeat and popular vote victory. what are you going to say the day after that happens? >> i'm going to support the electoral col
♪ >>> all right. joining me, i have a member of mitt romney's health care adviser group. i have the author of "america's unwritten constitution." heather mcgee and henrik from the new yorker magazine. there are -- i want to show some polling about the electoral college. i want to put this flag in the ground before election day happens. i would like to remind everyone on the right what their commitments are. if you ask people, should we have a popular vote, you will see that...
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we have, absolutely everything we're saying here is totally right except that that president who will say it and probably say some of that quite well. still has, they desperately look. i talk to dnc people all the time. they desperately look at that romney pile of money and they keep saying, people saying, oh, my gosh, we have to get some of that -- >> the president could not be more clear. i will raise taxes for this as part of shared sacrifices. >> the emphasis on that message is undermined by the absolute fear of romney's budget. >> but that's not accurate. let's be clear. the top 2%, okay, they are absolutely willing to give back what they want to see as a fiscal deal. so, they understand where their dollars and cents are going. i think the president put something on the table, okay, which was for every $3 of spending cuts, it's a dollar of revenues. we should just look at the facts. 15% of our gdp right now is revenues. 24% is spending. the average has always been 18% of revenues, 21% of spending. so, when the republican party stands up and say zero to tax increases, it's silly t
we have, absolutely everything we're saying here is totally right except that that president who will say it and probably say some of that quite well. still has, they desperately look. i talk to dnc people all the time. they desperately look at that romney pile of money and they keep saying, people saying, oh, my gosh, we have to get some of that -- >> the president could not be more clear. i will raise taxes for this as part of shared sacrifices. >> the emphasis on that message is...
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and we'll talk about mitt romney's secret weapon. >> all right. melissa perry coming up next. >> we know now the critics were pressing when they warned governor jeb bush not to sign the law. it's how governor bush defended the law at the time. >> when you're in a position where you're being threatened and there's a life-threatening situation to have to retreat and put yourself in a very precarious position, it defies common sense. >> we also know the number of justifiable homicides has app creased 25 times since 2005. we know that we're pushed by alec, the legislative exchange council and the national rifle association. we know that keeping the peace is as core a state function as exists. and it's time to throw in the towel on the entire experiment. the so called d.c. bad boy reporter posted this interview of youtube's bono. >> you're not in charge of your own company? you have no say in what youtube does? >> not particularly. >> you don't? >> we know the video has since been taken down because that wasn't bono in the video but a bono impersonator
and we'll talk about mitt romney's secret weapon. >> all right. melissa perry coming up next. >> we know now the critics were pressing when they warned governor jeb bush not to sign the law. it's how governor bush defended the law at the time. >> when you're in a position where you're being threatened and there's a life-threatening situation to have to retreat and put yourself in a very precarious position, it defies common sense. >> we also know the number of...
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romney won -- by bigger margins with the more moderate voters. you are right about the context. this is a state that romney won four years ago. it also has a heavy mormon population. i think we always expected to see romney win here. big win is not all that surprising. we are seeing now all adding up for him. he had some of the numbers in florida and he had some in nevada. if he can continue to consolidate conservative support within the republican party, then he has a stronger case to make that he's the front runner and inevitable which was the original argument. >> okay. let's take listen to what gingrich had to say, weighing in last night after romney claimed victory. here it is. >> i'm pretty comfortable when you come down to it as we go state to state to state, pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase, george soros a approved, probably will not do very well. i'm happy to have that debate with governor romney. >> clearly, newt gingrich unleashing on romney. he says he's not going away. is that good or bad for the party? >> you know, i go back and forth on this questio
romney won -- by bigger margins with the more moderate voters. you are right about the context. this is a state that romney won four years ago. it also has a heavy mormon population. i think we always expected to see romney win here. big win is not all that surprising. we are seeing now all adding up for him. he had some of the numbers in florida and he had some in nevada. if he can continue to consolidate conservative support within the republican party, then he has a stronger case to make...
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right. >> he goes on to describe the people who deserve the credit for building this business. of course he describes people who we care about who make a difference in our lives, school teachers, firefighters, people that build roads. we need those things. we value school teachers and firefighters and people who build roads. >> you couldn't have a business if you didn't have those things. i really think -- and this is part of something broader that is happening in this election. there is this inclination and i think particularly true on the romney side but both have dual incentives to make this the case to create a vision of the election as a grand titanic clash between two battling ideology. like the one of pure job creator individualism versus this social democratic welfare statism when we are talking about raising tax rates maybe 8%. that is the thing. and now we are having this debate because of this attack that says -- what are we fighting about? can somebody explain to me? >> romney is trying to stake a clear line between entitlement society. it is fascinating the way it
right. >> he goes on to describe the people who deserve the credit for building this business. of course he describes people who we care about who make a difference in our lives, school teachers, firefighters, people that build roads. we need those things. we value school teachers and firefighters and people who build roads. >> you couldn't have a business if you didn't have those things. i really think -- and this is part of something broader that is happening in this election....
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mitt romney is right to be embarrassed. we should all be. joining us to discuss the imperative of raising taxes on the rich, stacy where she teaches about wall street, josh bauer, columnist at "bloomberg view." jake jacobs, msnbc military analyst and held several positions and it's great to have you all here. >> thank you. >> i'm a total cliche on this. i think we should tax the rich a lot. it's so striking to go back into that and look at that what that tax regime looked like because it is like from another planet. our tax conversation just has no relationship whatsoever to that period and that period of time is an era of great nostal jufor a lot of people in a lot of different ways and to look at a just how much he was paying. i want to read this little bit from "fortune" magazine which talks about how transformative this kind of progressive taxation was for just the lived reality of executive of the time, of folks who made a lot of money. in 1955 talking about how top executives live. the whole story is about how modest their lives are. i
mitt romney is right to be embarrassed. we should all be. joining us to discuss the imperative of raising taxes on the rich, stacy where she teaches about wall street, josh bauer, columnist at "bloomberg view." jake jacobs, msnbc military analyst and held several positions and it's great to have you all here. >> thank you. >> i'm a total cliche on this. i think we should tax the rich a lot. it's so striking to go back into that and look at that what that tax regime looked...
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mitt romney gets offended. we'll explain why, right after this. [ female announcer ] experience dual-action power, with listerine® whitening plus restoring rinse. it's the only listerine® that gets teeth two shades whiter and makes tooth enamel two times stronger. get dual-action listerine® whitening rinse. building whiter, stronger teeth. mcallen, texas. in here, heavy rental equipment in the middle of nowhere, is always headed somewhere. to give it a sense of direction, at&t created a mobile asset solution to protect and track everything. so every piece of equipment knows where it is, how it's doing or where it goes next. ♪ this is the bell on the cat. [ male announcer ] it's a network of possibilities -- helping you do what you do... even better. ♪ >>> presidentç obama stirring controversy this week with what many perceived oos a sly jab at mitt romney's privileged upbringing. >> somebody gave me an education. i wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. michelle wasn't. but somebody gave us a cha
mitt romney gets offended. we'll explain why, right after this. [ female announcer ] experience dual-action power, with listerine® whitening plus restoring rinse. it's the only listerine® that gets teeth two shades whiter and makes tooth enamel two times stronger. get dual-action listerine® whitening rinse. building whiter, stronger teeth. mcallen, texas. in here, heavy rental equipment in the middle of nowhere, is always headed somewhere. to give it a sense of direction, at&t created a...
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that is an instance where the rights attack did work in the sense the immediate aftermath, romney attacked him. bill crystal said he sounded unpresidential. it forced the administration to take it from an issue to make the comments and it made them commit to a line. they went out there and pushed that line on every sunday talk show. >> okay. yes. but there's also -- >> i think president obama issue has been quite frankly a disgusting response. he goes on jon stewart, he'll go on "the view" say it's not optimal to get killed -- >> he was repeating. he hasn't -- >> he stood up and said i'm commander and chief. i'm responsible. >> very evasive during the debate. he did not answer the question. i thought romney gave him such a huge gift by completely -- >> i think we are all in agreement with that. i don't think he was passive. >> he said i take full responsibility. why will he not say this is an act of war against america. >> i want to address that. >> they want to down play it. >> that is the -- >> you can intervene in the middle east without a cost. >> there's a moving semantic saying act o
that is an instance where the rights attack did work in the sense the immediate aftermath, romney attacked him. bill crystal said he sounded unpresidential. it forced the administration to take it from an issue to make the comments and it made them commit to a line. they went out there and pushed that line on every sunday talk show. >> okay. yes. but there's also -- >> i think president obama issue has been quite frankly a disgusting response. he goes on jon stewart, he'll go on...
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who is their embody, right, lost the election, we still frame everything in terms of what will hit the street. what will happen to wall street? which made tremendous profits over the last four years. they haven't been hurt at all. but they're so terrified of this fiscal cliff, it's their frame. >> last week, former partner of bain capital the irony is two things are happening simultaneously. the one hand, as actors in the political sphere, people in the 1% and in finance and wall street are saying, oh, my god, we're screwed. our deficits are going to be too big, and it's going to mean huge interest rates and a run on u.s. treasuries, right? this is how they talk when they're in the sphere of politics. then during their day job when they're trading bonds, right, the actual yields on the bond prices which is a market reflection. these are people who believe that market prices convey the right information, when they're in their day job trading the bonds it's historically low yields. all everyone cannot give the u.s. government money fast enough and leave their jobs and take, sell it down
who is their embody, right, lost the election, we still frame everything in terms of what will hit the street. what will happen to wall street? which made tremendous profits over the last four years. they haven't been hurt at all. but they're so terrified of this fiscal cliff, it's their frame. >> last week, former partner of bain capital the irony is two things are happening simultaneously. the one hand, as actors in the political sphere, people in the 1% and in finance and wall street...
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take a look at texas, right? no state is going through the demographic changes we're talking about than texas. mitt romney won it by a wider margin than john mccain did. so there's some conservatives that are saying that. others are saying we have to get religion. here's shawn han knit at this. >> he has evolved. >> announcing how he feels about immigration reform. take a look. >> we've got to get rid of the immigration issue altogether. it's simple to me to fix it. i think you control the border first. you create a pathway for these people that are here. you don't say you've got to go home and that is a position that i've evolved on because, you know what, it just -- it's got to be resolved. the majority of people here, if there's some people that have criminal records, you can send them home. if people are here, law abiding, participating beings four years, their kids are born here, it's first secure the boarder, pathway to citizenship, done, whatever little penalties you want to put in there if you want, but t
take a look at texas, right? no state is going through the demographic changes we're talking about than texas. mitt romney won it by a wider margin than john mccain did. so there's some conservatives that are saying that. others are saying we have to get religion. here's shawn han knit at this. >> he has evolved. >> announcing how he feels about immigration reform. take a look. >> we've got to get rid of the immigration issue altogether. it's simple to me to fix it. i think...
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mostly because afghans knew right from the start, when president obama, when candidate obama was running for office, he ran on the policy of escalating the war in afghanistan. it came as no surprise. it shouldn't have come as any surprise to the anti-war movement to people here in the u.s. that the war was escalated. and that's something that bush in fact, he escalated what bush was doing. and so you know, i think it makes, it's very going to make very little difference. because the women of rawa understand that the policies of america are driven by american interests, not afghan interests. >> does it make very little different for this reason, because we're getting out anyway, 0or does it make little difference because it's going to perpetuate it? is it the case that continuity at this point means a slide towards inevitable withdrawal. or are we going to see the ball kicked down the road again and again, like we have seen already. >> i doubt that mitt romney is going to keep kicking the ball down the road. given public opinion and given even his reluctance to overtly say that he wants t
mostly because afghans knew right from the start, when president obama, when candidate obama was running for office, he ran on the policy of escalating the war in afghanistan. it came as no surprise. it shouldn't have come as any surprise to the anti-war movement to people here in the u.s. that the war was escalated. and that's something that bush in fact, he escalated what bush was doing. and so you know, i think it makes, it's very going to make very little difference. because the women of...
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whereas ann romney should stay home with her kids. it's a wonderful thing. >> jessica, you talk about this expectation in the book. >> i wanted to get to something you were saying, chris, about this expectation of who takes care of the children. the idea that women are the designated parent is literally not just a part of the culture but it's a part of the policy. when the census bureau counts as what counts as child care, women count as the child care. any hours that father puts in is counted add baby-sitting and i think that's unbelievable. so when you take care of your kid, that's baby-sitting according to the -- >> i once heard a father say, someone i knew say -- casually say i can't do that. i'm baby-sitting that night. and someone else saying, no, no, no, you're not baby-sitting. you're parenting. i want to talk more about this and about the shocking research to me that's in this book about the relationship between happiness and having kids. it's not at all what you might expect right after this. i don't spend money on gasoline.
whereas ann romney should stay home with her kids. it's a wonderful thing. >> jessica, you talk about this expectation in the book. >> i wanted to get to something you were saying, chris, about this expectation of who takes care of the children. the idea that women are the designated parent is literally not just a part of the culture but it's a part of the policy. when the census bureau counts as what counts as child care, women count as the child care. any hours that father puts in...
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so in the -- if in the example of the romney blueprint, right, which again a not detailed and so on but includes things -- basically includes a large expansion of illegal immigration and hopefully reforms and str streamlining -- >> how can he plauzably do that? >> i think -- there are a lot of different elements at work in conservative opposition to imgraig, but part of the opposition is a focus on issues of law and order, right? there is a strong conservative sensibility that i thirpg is not totally unreasonable. yes, we should welcome them and maybe we should welcome more of them, but that doesn't mean that we should grant citizenship to people who broke our laws. >> and then there's a disconnect between -- okay, we recognize that people are here illegally. and what should bedo. from where i'm sitting, the republicans seem to be saying -- it seems to halt the conversation right there. everybody's going they're doing massive deportations. >> that's exactly where the conversation goes. you can't do mass deportations. you don't do anything. >> you don't do anything about -- about people
so in the -- if in the example of the romney blueprint, right, which again a not detailed and so on but includes things -- basically includes a large expansion of illegal immigration and hopefully reforms and str streamlining -- >> how can he plauzably do that? >> i think -- there are a lot of different elements at work in conservative opposition to imgraig, but part of the opposition is a focus on issues of law and order, right? there is a strong conservative sensibility that i...
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mitt romney was a good barometer. didn't stay to the right of this. he hugged marco rubio's version of the dream, which is a bit off so far. we were talking about before with the iraq war, who to trust, it turns out people yelling in the streets saying this is a human rights issue. politically we are right. it turns out to be something politically popular. >> and they were getting it. they were occupying campaign offices. >> that's what did it. that's the counter to money. >> thank you to jamila, larry, amy goodman and dave weigel, thank you for getting up. thank you for joining us today for "up." join us tomorrow morning at 8:00. we'll have steven cohen of tennessee and michael hastings. >>> coming up next is melissa harris perry. in the wake of the white house's bold announcement on immigration, melissa will look at the new way to talk about immigration. more on brain drain and wage left than border control. and she'll talk to undocumented immigrants about their fears of deportation. >>> plus, the president's economic vision, has the president accur
mitt romney was a good barometer. didn't stay to the right of this. he hugged marco rubio's version of the dream, which is a bit off so far. we were talking about before with the iraq war, who to trust, it turns out people yelling in the streets saying this is a human rights issue. politically we are right. it turns out to be something politically popular. >> and they were getting it. they were occupying campaign offices. >> that's what did it. that's the counter to money. >>...
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. >> the mandate was the version, right? the mandate was the idea that you get risk pooling by requiring this, of course, that is the model that mitt romney puts into effect in massachusetts. the politics of this is interesting because mitt romney will talk about it, which he doesn't like to do. one thing i would like to emphasize the market for health care is different than the market for all sorts of other goods for a whole bunch of reasons. but one of the big reasons it's different is that the consumer dozen make decisions about what they will consume. the key market mechanism is that i walk into bed, bath & beyond and i want those shower curtains and those shower curtains and make my decision. i don't have a doctor that comes in and says, you have to get this shower curtain. the mediation of consumer in health care with the whole world of advisors who have degrees and who have knowledge that you don't have, right? you're dependent upon their expertise to make these consumer decisions and they're making these decisions an
. >> the mandate was the version, right? the mandate was the idea that you get risk pooling by requiring this, of course, that is the model that mitt romney puts into effect in massachusetts. the politics of this is interesting because mitt romney will talk about it, which he doesn't like to do. one thing i would like to emphasize the market for health care is different than the market for all sorts of other goods for a whole bunch of reasons. but one of the big reasons it's different is...
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right into it, right? he's the one who's talking about you all are envious of the fact that i've made this mean and i can afford $10 million homes. so i think that really trying to find that chink in romney's armor which i think has been hard so far, i think it's brilliant. >> what's interesting is, they tried -- there's always a tttac you would have expected in the republican primary, the biggest one is obama care. i'm using that in quotes. you know, it kept going flat and they kept raising it and it kept going flat. this seems to be the only thing that's getting at him, which is fascinating. it was the thing that i think everybody knew would be raised in the general election. remember, when romney ran in '94 we talked to randy johnson who worked at a plant that was closed. we talked to him last weekend. he and his co-workers drove out to massachusetts and toured around in '49 when they cut these devastating ads against romney. this is not new but you didn't expect to see it here. >> he seemed totally unp
right into it, right? he's the one who's talking about you all are envious of the fact that i've made this mean and i can afford $10 million homes. so i think that really trying to find that chink in romney's armor which i think has been hard so far, i think it's brilliant. >> what's interesting is, they tried -- there's always a tttac you would have expected in the republican primary, the biggest one is obama care. i'm using that in quotes. you know, it kept going flat and they kept...
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not to help any sort of inequality, to preserve inequality. >> and extend privilege. >> right, right. right. everyone wants to see the president's grades. everyone skeptical of what affirmative action did for him. we don't believe him, is he a citizen? no one skeptical of mitt romney, given the fact that no one thinks how he was born, how that housing helped him. the whole time in which he comes from may have aided his rise. i'm not saying anybody should, but the skepticism toward obama is not one reflected across the screen. very particular skeptic. >> racism not just hatred, but trust toward some group of people and skepticism toward others. >> that one of the lines in the text that distresses me. when you read that line, a gorgeous writer so seductive. it's true i read the line and it says racism is in part defined by a preferential option for one group and skepticism toward another. but if it is that solely or primarily, than black folks are the biggest racists i know, a deep skepticism, i think we have to make sure we're layering on top of the emotives and socialistic preferences
not to help any sort of inequality, to preserve inequality. >> and extend privilege. >> right, right. right. everyone wants to see the president's grades. everyone skeptical of what affirmative action did for him. we don't believe him, is he a citizen? no one skeptical of mitt romney, given the fact that no one thinks how he was born, how that housing helped him. the whole time in which he comes from may have aided his rise. i'm not saying anybody should, but the skepticism toward...
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i think you could overstate the degree to which the religious right is now upset about romney will come around and that's equivalent to the pumas. the fact is that romney has always done bad among women in his race against ted kennedy when there wasn't this big culture war gap, he lost women by 24% or 26%. >> why do you think that is? >> i've talked to people from the kennedy campaign about this because i'm working on a store i about it. they hit him on his economic record about women's issues. if you look at his economic record, it was about all the women he laid off. there's no women in his inner circle. they hit him about the fact that the top 40 people at bain, one was a woman. he just -- >> you know, i think it's two things. one is that his focus group of women is his wife and that's going to be problematic. but also he kind of represents a "mad men" earra. >> and he has a political clumsiness that is particular to him. a lot of politicians have to move from that as they come from his position of being in the electorate and wanting to win, that's not the unusual space. it's his com
i think you could overstate the degree to which the religious right is now upset about romney will come around and that's equivalent to the pumas. the fact is that romney has always done bad among women in his race against ted kennedy when there wasn't this big culture war gap, he lost women by 24% or 26%. >> why do you think that is? >> i've talked to people from the kennedy campaign about this because i'm working on a store i about it. they hit him on his economic record about...
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you should know that right wing billionaire and mitt romney continue to wine and raptd about regulation. it can actually save businesses money. they found that those work sites subjected to random safety inspections reduced injuries by 9ch and saved 26% in workers' compensation costs in the four years following the inspection. the study found no negative impact on profit and sales. you should know that not only it can be good for workers an come sew i want to find out what my guests know. we'll start with you bill black. >> spachblt everyone agrees greece is a special case, but spain coming into the crisis had bushlgt surpluses and was praised. it has a bubble in residential real estate that was roughly twice as large ads the u.s. bubble and has been pretending that everything is hunky-dory. so it's been hiding massive bank los angeleses and unemployment is 26%. in southern spain, 30%. youth unemployment is over 50%. >> in any event, everyone's going to focus on spain. >> it's a massively bigger economy than greece and will cause a systemic crisis. >> betsy? >> what people should know i
you should know that right wing billionaire and mitt romney continue to wine and raptd about regulation. it can actually save businesses money. they found that those work sites subjected to random safety inspections reduced injuries by 9ch and saved 26% in workers' compensation costs in the four years following the inspection. the study found no negative impact on profit and sales. you should know that not only it can be good for workers an come sew i want to find out what my guests know. we'll...
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and, you know, in a weird defense of mitt romney, in a weird defense of mitt romney, he was answering a deficit question there. he wasn't thinking about fema at all. >> right. in fact, he tried to dodge it a little bit. >> i think that's a really crucial because to me when i think about fema and disasters i'm absolutely confronted by these two americas, the katrina/fema reaction and the sandy/fema reaction and the reality is to argue there hasn't been a significant political response to the significance of fema by different governments and it's not split down party lines. it's simply not true. there was a really great article in "mother jones" that took you through -- >> the development of fema competence. >> right. and who had headed fema and the way that presidents had appointed those fema heads were directly related to how they perceived their significance. so, for example, george bush actually allocated michael brown who was the former -- i just had to read this out, because i was just blown away. michael brown who was the former commissioner of judges and stewards for the interna
and, you know, in a weird defense of mitt romney, in a weird defense of mitt romney, he was answering a deficit question there. he wasn't thinking about fema at all. >> right. in fact, he tried to dodge it a little bit. >> i think that's a really crucial because to me when i think about fema and disasters i'm absolutely confronted by these two americas, the katrina/fema reaction and the sandy/fema reaction and the reality is to argue there hasn't been a significant political...
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in the long term, it's going to rock the right. i think it's important to stand up to these people and say no, that's not acceptable. >> i think it's important that every time there is some incident in the news that has a racial sub text or a racial charge or is racially polarizing, it's always an opportunity for really hard core racists to do something really racic. but you get something, you raise the temperature a little bit and sure enough. >> start talking about black people at all and sure enough. >> and that seems like one of the dynamics here. >> it's not just about alienating or supporting the racist within a party. i feel like there's this whole apparatus that is defense based, right, around years of sort of, i don't know, feeling that they've been unfairly called racist. so the idea that it's even worse to be called a racist than it is to espouse racist views and really, who you're insulting is everyone who is white or everyone who is identified with the party. it's not just that sort of subset. >> well, i also found it
in the long term, it's going to rock the right. i think it's important to stand up to these people and say no, that's not acceptable. >> i think it's important that every time there is some incident in the news that has a racial sub text or a racial charge or is racially polarizing, it's always an opportunity for really hard core racists to do something really racic. but you get something, you raise the temperature a little bit and sure enough. >> start talking about black people at...
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visit progressive.com today. >>> all right. i want to bring in a managing partner of the private ek quitty firm, treasury in the bush administration and a fund-raiser and economic adviser for mitt romney. he's joining us from new hampshire. great to have you. >> good morning. great to be with you. >> you watched my class war disposition. do you think there is a divide between the perspective and politics and policy positions of the very, very small number of americans who can afford a $50,000 spot and the mass of public opinion and does it affect our politics? >> no, not really. i listened to you for the last ten or 15 minutes. give me two or three minutes to react to a couple things i heard. >> sure. >> this will get right to your question. first of all, i heard, you didn't say this, but one of your guests said that president obama is not transactional. i would disagree. i think president obama is the most transactional president i have seen since i became politically active since the early 1980s. let me give you one example.
visit progressive.com today. >>> all right. i want to bring in a managing partner of the private ek quitty firm, treasury in the bush administration and a fund-raiser and economic adviser for mitt romney. he's joining us from new hampshire. great to have you. >> good morning. great to be with you. >> you watched my class war disposition. do you think there is a divide between the perspective and politics and policy positions of the very, very small number of americans who...
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that clip is him of romney is him in his mission years. conservatism doesn't seem like a unified things at moments. and the neocon conservatives, there's the fiser. >> i think there's a couple things to say. at its height and greatest pote potentcy, it managed to do it because it was reacting against a whole series of, as i said, the social insurgencies from the left. they had a program to beat this back. i think one of the reasons, and all the guests are right about what the problem is with the conservative party today, the republican party, is that there actually is no left, and that actually brings it together. what is fascinating, it's not that he is just a lone voice. intellectually, they have a tremendous balance. there's a movement pushing for the vote and for labor rights, and david frumm doesn't have that. >> i think that, you know, what our website is a long-term view. in the long-term, the republican party will have to modernize. when we are no longer a majority white country, that's going to be more necessary. there's the threa
that clip is him of romney is him in his mission years. conservatism doesn't seem like a unified things at moments. and the neocon conservatives, there's the fiser. >> i think there's a couple things to say. at its height and greatest pote potentcy, it managed to do it because it was reacting against a whole series of, as i said, the social insurgencies from the left. they had a program to beat this back. i think one of the reasons, and all the guests are right about what the problem is...
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. >> right. >> you can't have an army. you can't do the things we weren't able to çdo. one more thing. 1789 and the founders, this constitution is an intergenerational document. we made amends to it, got rid of slavery after the civil war. this didn't get rid of slavery. we the people of the united states at the beginning of the 20th century, people proudly called themselves progressive into that provision. a pro tax provision in the 16th amendment. we the people rose up, the 99%, and said, yes, we can. the 16th amendment is another. this is a pro tax instrument. if you don't like the taxes and spending, vote the bums out. >> right. but there is broad constitutionality authority. i made the point yesterday. we'll bring in randy barnett in a second. the ruling is interesting. the ruling starts off with justice roberts saying for the narrow purposes of the anti-injunction act, let's say one thing on the table was could the court rule on the matter at hand. the statutory legislation says you canno
. >> right. >> you can't have an army. you can't do the things we weren't able to çdo. one more thing. 1789 and the founders, this constitution is an intergenerational document. we made amends to it, got rid of slavery after the civil war. this didn't get rid of slavery. we the people of the united states at the beginning of the 20th century, people proudly called themselves progressive into that provision. a pro tax provision in the 16th amendment. we the people rose up, the 99%,...
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romney's problems gaining altitude are not just metaphorical. after campaigning yesterday in virginia, romney and his campaign had to find a flight home when the campaign plane was grounded due to technical problems. right now my story of the week, what the president didn't say in charlotte. this was, i think, my favorite moment in the president's speech on thursday night. >> my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet because climate change is not a hoax. more droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. they are a threat to our children's future, and in this election you can do something about it. >> a-fricking-men i say. it was hardly mentioned at all save for three references. so it meant a lot to hear it from the president's own lips. but there's also something distressing in that line, something that haunted me and the entire democratic convention. it was this part. >> and in this election, you can do something about it. >> and in this election, you can do something about it. after the spectacle of
romney's problems gaining altitude are not just metaphorical. after campaigning yesterday in virginia, romney and his campaign had to find a flight home when the campaign plane was grounded due to technical problems. right now my story of the week, what the president didn't say in charlotte. this was, i think, my favorite moment in the president's speech on thursday night. >> my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet because climate change is not a...